What does pepper-and-salt mean?

pepper-and-salt

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English

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Synonym of harbinger-of-spring (“Erigenia bulbosa”).

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"She paused on the cleanest of steps; a lad in pepper-and-salt livery opened the door; and she entered the hall and an atmosphere of most savoury soup, where she seemed likely to remain..."

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harbinger-of-spring

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